Bring Your Dream Garden to Life with These 10 Creeping Plants!

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Bring Your Dream Garden to Life with These 10 Creeping Plants!

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A dream garden may seem like a dream out of reach. But hey, what if we told you that you need to add or change just a few things here and there to bring your dream of a picture-perfect garden to life? 

Here are a few climbing and creeping ground cover plants that will make the garden of your dreams a reality. Let's get into it!

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10 Dreamy Climbing & Creeping Plants for Your Outdoor Garden

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Can you feel it? Can you hear it? It's the sound of your dream house inching closer to you as you start with creating the most dreamy garden ever. We start somewhere because Rome wasn't built in a day after all!

So, let's get right down to the real deal (can you tell we can't wait for your garden to materialize already?):

 

1. Wandering Jew

Wandering Jew with creeping flowers

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Talk about mesmerizing and dreamy and Mr. Got-You-In-The-Palm-of-His-Hands. We could go on and on, but hey... we gotta introduce the plant already. 

The stunning Wandering Jew boasts looks that speak for themselves and just the presence of their vibrant foliage and flowers can take your garden from a 2 to a 10... instantly. 

Growing effortlessly with 4-6 of sunlight everyday, these stunners are drop-dead gorgeous when they begin to bloom. Honestly, you see their flowers and you'll suddenly realize that all your nurturing efforts were worth it.

 

2. Golden Sedum

Golden Sedum Creeping Plants for Gardens

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Golden Sedum plants is what you'd call timeless. These golden-green foliage plants display a wonderful creeping growth habit, which creates the most catchy aesthetic on garden beds and pair beautifully with a bunch of your other favorite greens. 

These stunners are easy to grow and need only to be kept well hydrated to be by your side like the loyal comrades they are. A little care goes a long way for these creeping plants, and just like that... your dream garden just got a little closer. 

 

3. Betel Leaf Plant

Betel Leaf Creeping Plant - Medicinal and Ornamental

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Medicinal, beautiful, and dreamy? Talk about the perfect creeping plant for your garden! These wonderful medicinal plants are multifunctional with their many health benefits and memorably good looks. 

The glossy, heart-shaped leaves of this plant look cute as a button in gardens and their fast growth, paired with their creeping growth habit, making these plants perfect for a quick fix.

 

4. Money Plant Variegated

Money Plant Variegated

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Another golden glower is the Money Plant Variegated, doing absolute justice its track record of being one of the most OG variegated plants. Place it in the sunlight and it will shine bright like a diamond (yes, this is an ode to Rihanna because the plant is just that great). 

Its delicate heart-shaped leaves can grow like creeping ground cover plants or even climbers or trellis supports. Grow them anywhere, give them infrequent attention, and watch them thrive!

Another step closer to the perfect dream garden? Yes, a thousand times yes!

 

5. Nasturtium Creeping Flowers

Nasturtium Creeping Flowers

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Need more than just foliage plants for a little more color? Then Nasturtiums are the most stunning creeping flowers and believe us when we say, they've really got the 'dreamy' memo. 

With leaves like little Lily pads and flowers that resemble colorful little bells, Nasturtium flowers are that perfect finishing touch that your garden needs. 

 

6. Philodendron Micans

Philodendron Micans Creeping Plant

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Going goth this time? We've got the perfect fix for a dreamy goth garden, too! The Philodendron micans, with its black-green, heart-shaped leaves, is the perfect creeper for shaded outdoor gardens everywhere. 

This stunner is low maintenance and super easy to care for. So, it's perfect whether or not you've got a green thumb under your belt. If you're embracing the darkness this season, this plant is just what you need!

 

7. English Ivy

English Ivy Plant

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This stunning climber is absolutely the most picturesque plant if you're looking to bring your Pinterest-y dream garden to life. Super hardy and easy to grow, it is also the most wonderful companion plant for almost, well, every other garden plant. 

Its veined and sometimes variegated leaves look mesmerizing as they climb walls, trellises, or other support surfaces. If we entered a garden and saw this plant growing against the walls, we'd fold instantly. 

Definitely cottage-core aesthetics!

 

8. Money Plant N'Joy

Money climbing and creeping ground cover plants

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A perfect blend of cream-green hues, the marvelous Mrs. Money Plant N'Joy is a wonder in the world of plants. This easy-care, low-maintenance plant is the perfect first-time plant. 

With just a little care, this Money Plant will become your garden's best bud for long, long years. It is another dreamy creeping plant and does wonderfully when given the right kind of support. 

 

9. Blue Morning Glory

Blue Morning Glory creeping plants

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These wonderful flowering vines are yet another picture-perfect addition to gardens and they really bring their A-game to the game of "who's more dreamy?"

These stunning flowers are a neon, almost fluorescent blue color that is accented by a heavenly white color. Whether you're going for dreamy or heavenly or both, this plant can do it all! 

Honestly, if we expect to see creeping flowers at the gates of heaven, these would be one of them. Exaggeration? We believe not! 

 

10. Passionflowers

Passion Flower Creeping Plants

Honestly, we were convinced just looking at the flowers of this creeping flower plant. Are you? 

The best part about these flowers is that they are not just ornamental but also medicinal and beneficial in many other ways. They are easy to grow and the right types can produce the most wonderful fruits. 

Dreamy? Check. Romantic? Check, check. This flower is everything your dream garden needs and more!

Also Read: Passion Flowers and their Countless Varieties

 

With the right plants, whether vegetable or flowering plants, you can create the garden of your dreams and when done right, you will be able to bask in the glory of your fine craftsmanship for ages to come. 

A dream garden is not difficult to create and you can do it too, with these stunning climbing and creeping ground cover plants. So, take your pick and get creative!